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The owners of lakefront homes in the town of Azle, Texas, saw their water disappear as creeks that fed the lake dried up. The creek supplied millions of gallons of water used by energy companies fracking for oil and gas. In addition, a series of intense earthquakes that have rocked the region have been blamed on underground wastewater wells and the drilling. A boom in oil and gas drilling across the American West has led to pollution and environmental problems in what were once pristine lands. Traveling rigs go from location to location, drilling down into the shale rock, and are soon followed by pumps that inject a toxic brew of water and chemicals for hydraulic extraction or 'fracking' of oil and gas. Photograph by Roger M. Richards

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$The owners of lakefront homes in the town of Azle, Texas, saw their water disappear as creeks that fed the lake dried up. The creek supplied millions of gallons of water used by energy companies fracking for oil and gas. In addition, a series of intense earthquakes that have rocked the region have been blamed on underground wastewater wells and the drilling. A boom in oil and gas drilling across the American West has led to pollution and environmental problems in what were once pristine lands. Traveling rigs go from location to location, drilling down into the shale rock, and are soon followed by pumps that inject a toxic brew of water and chemicals for hydraulic extraction or 'fracking' of oil and gas. Photograph by Roger M. Richards$